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Chapter 38

End-of-Life Care

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Question

•Is the following statement true or false?

Acceptance occurs while clients deal with their losses and are completing unfinished business.

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Answer

False.

Acceptance occurs after clients have dealt with their losses and completed unfinished business.

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Terminal Illness and Care• Terminal illness: recovery from the condition

is beyond reasonable expectations• Stages of dying

– Denial: psychological defense mechanism; refusal to believe certain information; helps to cope with reality of death

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Terminal Illness and Care (cont’d)• Stages of dying (cont’d)

– Anger: emotional response to feeling victimized; occurs because there is no way to retaliate against fate

– Bargaining: psychological mechanism to delay the inevitable

– Depression: sad mood; realization that death will come sooner rather than later

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Terminal Illness and Care (cont’d)• Stages of dying (cont’d)

– Acceptance: attitude of complacency that occurs after clients have dealt with their losses

• Promoting acceptance: nurses can help client to pass from one stage to another by providing emotional support and supporting client’s choice regarding terminal care

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Stages of Dying

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Terminal Illness and Care (cont’d)• Promoting acceptance (cont’d)

– Emotional support: part of missing nursing care; more necessary for dying clients

– Arrangements for care: respecting the rights of dying clients

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Helping Dying Clients Cope

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Terminal Illness and Care (cont’d)• Arrangements for care (cont’d)

– Home careo Respite care: relief for the caregiver by a

surrogate– Hospice care

o Eligibility for hospice care: 6 months or less to live

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The Dying Person’s Bill of Rights

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Question

•Is the following statement true or false?

In home care, the focus of support may shift back and forth from the client to the caregiver.

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AnswerTrue.

In home care, the focus of support may shift back and forth from the client to the caregiver.

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Terminal Illness and Care (cont’d)

• Arrangements for care (cont’d)

– Hospice care (cont’d)

o Hospice services: clients receive care in their own homes; multidisciplinary team of hospice professionals and volunteer support are provided

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Medicare Home Hospice Benefits

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Terminal Illness and Care (cont’d)

• Arrangements for care (cont’d)– Terminating hospice care

o Residential care: form of intermediate care

o Acute care: sophisticated technology and labor-intensive treatment

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Terminal Illness and Care (cont’d)• Providing terminal care

– Hydration: maintenance of adequate fluid volume

– Nourishment: tube feeding and parenteral nutrition

– Elimination: catheterization; enemas or suppositories; skin care

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Terminal Illness and Care (cont’d)

• Providing terminal care (cont’d)– Hygiene: clean, well groomed, and free

of unpleasant odors– Positioning: promote comfort and

circulation– Comfort: keep clients free from pain

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Terminal Illness and Care (cont’d)• Family involvement: maintain family bonds

to help coping with future grief• Approaching death: decrease and ultimate

cessation of function– Multiple organ failure: two or more

organs cease to function– Family notification: family should be

aware of approaching death

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Signs of Multiple Organ Failure

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Summoning the Family of a Dying Client

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Question

•Is the following statement true or false?

Hospice services can be terminated if the client does not meet the Medicare criteria.

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Answer

True.

Hospice services can be terminated if the client does not meet the Medicare criteria.

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Terminal Illness and Care (cont’d)• Family notification (cont’d)

– Meeting relatives to promote smooth transition

– Discussing organ donation

• Confirming death: determined on the basis that breathing and circulation have ceased

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Age Criteria for Organ Donation

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Terminal Illness and Care (cont’d)• Confirming death (cont’d)

– Brain death: irreversible loss of function of the brain

– Death certificate– Permission for autopsy: examination of

organs and tissues of human body after death

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Organ Procurement Form

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Terminal Illness and Care (cont’d)

• Performing postmortem care: – Cleaning and preparing the body to

enhance its appearance during viewing at the funeral home

– Proper identification– Releasing the body to mortuary personnel

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Grieving • Process of feeling acute sorrow over a loss

• Pathologic grief: dysfunctional grief; refusing to accept the client’s death

• Resolution of grief: time taken for mourning; ability to talk about the dead person; controlling emotions

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Nursing Implications

• Many nursing diagnoses:

– Acute pain, fear, spiritual distress, social isolation, ineffective coping, decisional conflict, hopelessness, powerlessness, dysfunctional grieving, anticipatory grieving, caregiver role strain, death anxiety, and chronic sorrow

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General Gerontologic Considerations• Understand that the dying older client is a

living person who may want to maintain the same interpersonal relationships as someone who is not dying

• Encouraging older clients, who have experienced the death of a close friend or family member, to express feelings associated with grieving is important

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General Gerontologic Considerations (cont’d)

• Reading obituaries can be an effective coping mechanism in helping to develop a peaceful and accepting attitude toward death